Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 2 | found this to be so , and demonstrated also that the latent inhibition produced by brief exposure to the odour was unaffected by contextual change . |
| 3 | Four years ago , the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , overturned an independent recommendation that the centre remain open , and promised instead that a new hospital would be built and a post-graduate dental institute funded at the university . |
| 4 | The father agrees to let the mother have the child , provided the child herself wishes to come and provided also that the mother satisfies the father that she will be well looked after and happy . |
| 5 | Where a publisher does not provide free reprints , the Library will purchase 50 reprints for staff use , provided funds are available , and provided also that the reprint orders are accompanied by an official Library order form . |
| 6 | Apples should be picked carefully and graded so that the smallest and largest are used first , and medium-sized fruit is saved for storage . |
| 7 | He nodded avidly in affirmation of his train of thought and turned so that the light fell directly on the front of his body . |
| 8 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 9 | Mother Francis sighed and prayed silently that the Lord would look after the soul of Jack Malone . |
| 10 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 11 | Seeded and loined so that the world might grow . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing of which you would approve , Doctor Horrocks , ’ she teased , and saw immediately that the Rector might misunderstand . |
| 13 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 14 | Maurice was still sober enough to know that he was drunk , and knew also that the water between the boats was wilder than he had ever seen it . |
| 15 | He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed . |
| 16 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 17 | But they were no more complimentary , and complained bitterly that the paper was devoid of politics . |
| 18 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea , actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 19 | Later that day she recalled her own words and reflected wryly that the happy day would never arrive for her . |
| 20 | Silence fell , and for a while Luce thought about the Lion of Venice and his Lucia , and wished fervently that the ring would one day be recovered . |
| 21 | But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet . |
| 22 | It was a good question , and suggested strongly that the Argyll interest was less powerful than it was believed to be by the community at large . |
| 23 | For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay . |
| 24 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 25 | It reported in mid-1861 , but suggested only that the peasantry of the western provinces fulfil their obligations in cash rather than labour . |
| 26 | It accepted that the administration of the Court ( and subsequently the General Assembly ) acting qua organisation , and not qua member States , had made a decision that did not comply with the formal requirements of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice , but held nevertheless that the Court had jurisdiction . |